pics and babbling

Something to look forward to....

Published on April 10 2008

Got my extra-fine line pens ALL ready for the future!! Mead Releases New Grad-School-Ruled Notebook RICHMOND, VA—After decades of only offering ruled notebook paper suitable for college-level education and below, school-supply giant Mead introduced its...

Little Jake is 5 and learning to read. He points at a picture in a zoo book and says, "Look Mama! It's a frickin' Elephant!" Deep breath ... "What did you call it?" "It's a frickin' Elephant, Mama! It says so on the picture!" and so it does ... " A f...

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more wild turkeys

Published on April 7 2008

Geez. Maybe it's a GOOD thing that Mr. Tom from the last post was too busy showing off for the ladies to pay any attention to me! Postal workers attacked by wild turkeys - Yahoo News MADISON, Wis. - Rather than rain or snow, or even dogs, postal workers...

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Okay, I need this camera

Published on April 6 2008

Okay. All together now. Drooooooooool. A $1,000 semipro camera will get you 3 shots a second. But this Casio can snap — are you ready for this? — 60 photos a second. These are not movies; these are full six-megapixel photographs, each with enough resolution...

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Turkey Day!!

Published on April 4 2008

No, not *that* kind of Turkey Day. Up until 5 or 6 years ago, I had never seen a wild turkey. I won't ever forget the first "herd" I saw, about 30 in a single flock alongside Hwy. 29 a half-dozen years ago. I recall spotting large dark "things" in the...

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say it isn't so!!!

Published on April 3 2008

Report: Favre re-thinking retirement - NFL - Yahoo Sports LOS ANGELES TICKER —Brett Favre could be having second thoughts about retirement. According to a Los Angeles Times report, the former Green Bay Packers quarterback, who announced his retirement...

Nothing like waking up to 8" of Mother Nature's Gift. 50 degree temps predicted for the next two days.... we go from one extreme to the other up here, don't we? Sloppy, soggy, horrible wet stuff as well. So I figured it was time to introduce Rudy to "'sconsin...

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Whew!

Published on April 1 2008

the upgrade seems to have worked....so far, anyway. Man, does this upgrade add a LOT to the Wordpress backend!

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announcement

Published on March 29 2008

Since, obviously, I haven't had the time to play with the blog much lately -- it must be time to completely crash it!! Seriously, I'll be fixing up breaking praying updating to Wordpress 2.5 sometime this weekend. Keep yer fingers crossed.

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down time

Published on March 28 2008

No, I have not abandoned the blog-- just been a little busier than usual these days with a few things that cannot wait. So.. while you're waiting to catch up on all the news (heh), I hereby direct you to one of my absolute favorite sites on the innernets...